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When the Police Switch Sides
SteynonLine ^ | April 15, 2025 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 04/15/2025 5:21:46 AM PDT by Twotone

Nothing is static or "stable". Under the churn of the daily news cycle, the long-term trends advance remorselessly. Thus, if you are English or Irish, Swedish or German, the police are now on the other side. Here's a particularly extreme example of that from yours truly long ago, musing on the soi-disant "most wanted man in Europe":

A few months after writing the above, I chanced to be in Molenbeek, which I knew well from my childhood (my mum was Belgian). I was checking out the story of Salah Abdeslam, who after taking part in the Bataclan atrocities in Paris had retreated to Brussels and holed up in the family's flat in Molenbeek. The apartment is directly across the square from ...police headquarters, where all the windows have a commanding view of the most wanted man in Europe's front door. I walked around the square several times, stopping only for a coffee at his brother's café, where the lads liked to sip coffee and watch jihadist snuff videos, also in full view of police headquarters.

And I did not think it remotely possible that the coppers could not have known where Mr Abdeslam was hiding out. As a matter of policy, 'the authorities' turn a blind eye to the provocations of Islam, because its adherents are too numerous.

As it goes in Molenbeek, so it goes in Montreal. In the slogan of the most famous of His Majesty's Constabularies, the Mounties always get their man. But, in the new Canada, they'll get you instead - because, frankly, that's a lot easier - and demographically prudent:

BREAKING: Montreal police arrest independent journalist @NatashaMontreal while she reported on the pro-Hamas protest here in the old city.

(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; marksteyn; police
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1 posted on 04/15/2025 5:21:46 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

police are there to protect them from us ...


2 posted on 04/15/2025 5:22:49 AM PDT by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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To: Twotone
... its adherents are too numerous.

Just WAIT!!!

Demographics are destiny!


3 posted on 04/15/2025 5:36:10 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Twotone

The UK police have a real problem with officers committing rape. They’ve arrested many of them for it.


4 posted on 04/15/2025 5:40:06 AM PDT by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis ictu vultures super turrem exanimat. )
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To: Elsie

mebe that why the Quebec separitist Bloc support is so low.....


5 posted on 04/15/2025 5:42:50 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: rottweiller_inc

Arrested? Shouldn’t they be getting/giving medals for it? Cultural outreach, celebrating diversity, and embracing alternative expressions of sexuality come to mind as reasons to award medals. Oh, also You Will Submit, an important dynamic both in Islam and in the Lord/peasant relationship between government agents and their subjects, irrespective of anyone’s religion.


6 posted on 04/15/2025 5:47:26 AM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: Twotone

That is so naive. The police have always been against the commoner.


7 posted on 04/15/2025 5:54:22 AM PDT by GingisK
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8 posted on 04/15/2025 5:55:08 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: Twotone

There are shocking statistics in England and Canada about how few real crimes the police have been able to solve. Especially burglaries, which the police view as too hard and beneath their attention. Instead its a lot easier to monitor average citizens’ social media accounts and arrest them. They more likely will go quietly.


9 posted on 04/15/2025 6:17:43 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: coloradan

almost surreal.

some examples from this year.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/met-police-officer-convicted-rape-woman-london-b1207028.html

https://news.met.police.uk/news/officer-charged-with-three-sex-offences-495180

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/dion-arnold-met-police-rape-arrest-b2729457.html


10 posted on 04/15/2025 6:18:13 AM PDT by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis ictu vultures super turrem exanimat. )
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To: Twotone

The citizens of Europe and Canada better learn about “ride or die”...
“islamic squat” describes it very well.


11 posted on 04/15/2025 6:21:52 AM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: rxh4n1

A job for two who are now of job age!


12 posted on 04/15/2025 6:52:26 AM PDT by CletusVanDamme (You always said you'd take real good care of me, didn't you George. Here's one rap you won't beat.)
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To: Twotone

later


13 posted on 04/15/2025 7:55:24 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

There’s a vid of English cops (who have neither the time nor the manpower to investigate burglaries) threatening a man with a hate crime for asking someone to speak English.


14 posted on 04/15/2025 7:58:07 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: Twotone

Starting off with “..nothing is stable..” is the fundamental cause of all of today’s problems. Simply by stating this as a truism that we all must live with is surrendering the fight of civilization to the mob, the rabid dogs.

Over tens of thousands of years civilization has come up with stable behavior patterns for all the humans that survived the tests of natural selection. Religion is irrelevant except as a means to communicate these behaviors.

If you are unwilling to stand up for behaviors that you know in your genes are correct, you have surrendered. Almost all change is caused by other humans, and many of them are either stupid or evil. Choose wisely.


15 posted on 04/15/2025 8:28:14 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: Twotone

People here forget to quickly how the police turned on us during COVID...


16 posted on 04/15/2025 9:04:42 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: Elsie

Nigeria will soon have a higher population than the USA.


17 posted on 04/15/2025 12:53:45 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: packrat35

Now now.

They were just following orders.


18 posted on 04/15/2025 8:06:51 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Sam Gamgee

India’s is nearly 4 times ours already!


19 posted on 04/15/2025 8:07:24 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Sam Gamgee

Say Hello to Apu.


20 posted on 04/15/2025 8:07:46 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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